Creating New Family Traditions After Divorce #shorts

Traditions are important family markers. They provide comfort, stability. It's an opportunity for the family to get together a few times a year. And when we lose those markers because of a divorce, we need to recreate those in a way that is going to help us to move forward. New traditions are a way to anchor in a new life. They were our anchor in our previous life, emotional anchors and they help to contribute to that sense of identity. But with the new landscape in front of us, they help us to actually begin a new chapter of our life. And the good news is we can make those traditions anything that we want them to be. But first, we have to acknowledge past traditions, what they brought to us, how they made us feel, the comfort that they gave us, because they had value and they were dear to us.